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Agha Shahid Ali



Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) was an Indian American Kashmiri poet and teacher. Shahid’s often cathartic poems are marked by a language of longing and moments of transformation even in the face of historical, cultural, and personal upheaval. His collection Rooms Are Never Finished was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001.

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Exile Returned

Agha Shahid Ali’s poems are charmed whispers that can console and devastate

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The Country Without a Post Office: Poems

“Translucent elegies ‘for the city that is leaving forever’ (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America’s finest younger poets.”―John Ashbery

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Loneliness and Longing in Agha Shahid Ali’s ‘Stationery’

The world is full of paper. Write to me.

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I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

In this insightful anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics.

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Agha Shahid Ali | The Country Without a Post Office [With Subtitles]

This poem is one of the best masterpieces by Agha Shahid Ali. It was originally called as “Kashmir Without a Post Office.”

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‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn

An account of Shahid’s last months and life work by his friend, the writer Amitav Ghosh.

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Izhar Patkin: Agha Shahid Ali on All Things Considered

Jacki Lyden Talks with Agha Shahid Ali for NPR, All Things Considered at Izhar Patkin’s Studio, July 2001, New York City.

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Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

In this stunningly inventive collection―a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry―Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her body back to Kashmir.

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An Interview with Poet Agha Shahid Ali

An excerpt from a conversation with Eric Gamalinda that took place in Ali's apartment in Brooklyn eight months before his death.

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